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by rpiguy 8y ago
This is called piggy-backing and it has several uses. Early PCs would stack/piggy-back memory chips to increase capacity. This was possible because of how memory was addressed. Another use is to find dead chips. If you put a working ch
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You could reduce the screen theft of the menus. It defaulted to a large menu for new users, as you became more proficient you could adjust the "help level" and reclaim the screen.
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Commodore c64x was just such a case, but they go for 300 dollars or more now.
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The logic here is mind boggling. Essentially they are removing merit as a selection criteria, because privilege affords people more opportunities to show merit. If you are raised with privilege your parents are far more likely to have encou
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They only had to note what zone (local, local long distance, or long distance) or what country you were connecting to and the duration of the call. The number you dialed was not recorded. So if you called Germany for 33 minutes they could c
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by rpiguy 8y ago
Ultra intense competition. The companies do what they need to do to stay alive and satisfy their shareholders. Fedex and Amazon are fierce competitors for UPS. Amazon in particular has incredible power since they can decide what they themse
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by rpiguy 9y ago
It depends on if you group together accidental deaths. Homicide is not number 2 if you break all the accidents out, for example, "vehicle accidents," "falls," etc. are both more frequent than homicides. If you group toge
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by rpiguy 9y ago
We grant seniority and senior positions to much younger folks in the US. You are hired on ability, not experience. Hence you can be a Senior developer after less than five years, because you are a great programmer. It is also part of how co
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I am sure they do, it is very common to have cross-cultural training. Go back 30-40 years and the Japanese and Korean professionals were getting cross-cultural training to work with US teams. Most MBA programs also include this kind of thin
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A job search that actually understands that Software Engineer, Programmer, Coder, Developer are all related and should show me those jobs (after the exact matches). It is infuriating trying to figure out what a company's internal job t
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by rpiguy 9y ago
Fascinating that we have been having the same debate on surveillance for over 30 years. If they could have foreseen Facebook, they would have been aghast.
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R.I.P. Electronic Freedom 1977-1985 [pdf](archive.org)
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Homicide has long been the number 2 cause of death in the workplace in the U.S. You can find statistics going back as far as 1992. Layoffs are indeed often a motivation. Hence the term, "going postal."
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The effect of unionization had the opposite effect in Germany, Denmark, etc. It caused a huge shift to contract work. Contractors have more protections in those countries than they do here, but do not enjoy nearly the same protections as fu
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by rpiguy 9y ago
Without division you cannot have dissent. This sanctimonious BS is exactly the kind of thing ordinary people scoff at. Cutting down on online bullying, stalking, and harassment is great. Figuring out what news to believe because you presume
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by rpiguy 9y ago
Social support and codependency are two different things. A codependent person will transfer their dependency to someone else. I was pointing out that codependent women drop their female friends just like some married men do.
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My high school required everyone to take a "typing" class and the instructor didn't know the word processor installed could do cut and paste. Those of us that were computer savvy in the early 90s therefore were the fastest ty
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by rpiguy 9y ago
I agree with everything you wrote except that you seem to be implying this is a male thing, when it is equally common for a woman to drop her friends once she is in a stable relationship and to become dependent on her partner for all social
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by rpiguy 9y ago
There is less competition for talent in smaller markets like Pittsburg, so they get paid less. Also an engineer in Pittsburg, for example, would usually be okay getting paid less, because housing is cheaper by a factor of 5 than Silicon Val
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by rpiguy 9y ago
That’s not how labor markets work. Amazon engineers in Boston and Seattle will certainly be paid more on average than engineers from Pittsburgh or Atlanta.
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Easy access to three airports, the Turnpike, New York City, lots of college educated people from surrounding areas and tons of universities within a thirty mile radius. They also already have offices there for Audible, and a huge distributi
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by rpiguy 9y ago
It seems interesting that Amazon is not terribly concerned with the cost of labor. Several cities and states on that list have very high labor costs (Boston, New Jersey, etc.) Good to see they are more concerned with talent and infrastructu
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by rpiguy 9y ago
Applications written in COBOL, RPG, etc. will be around forever because they offer older coders job security. Ever work at a company run on one of these systems? Through overstatement of risk and cost, these applications persevere. Trying t
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by rpiguy 9y ago
The true long term vision for basic income, which this video does not touch on, does not involve the rich subsidizing the poor. When birthrates stabilize at or below the replacement rate it becomes difficult to grow an economy. Typically co
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by rpiguy 9y ago
Interesting that the OP changed the original title from "Academic Freedom Under Threat in Sweden" to a more equivocating view for Hacker News. Social Justice in this case means the erasure of history and culture. It is sad. The wo
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by rpiguy 9y ago
You are right the high end of the CS300 competes with the low end of the 737. I was thinking of the actual trade dispute Boeing filed which was over the sale of CS100 aircraft to Delta, which actually does not compete with the 737.
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by rpiguy 9y ago
The current C series does not really compete with the 737MAX for most routes, that is one of the absurd things about Boeing’s trade dispute. Boeing does not have a 737MAX small enough to overlap the CS is a 717compwtitor which they don’t ma
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by rpiguy 9y ago
It’s still a win for Boeing and Trump. Bombardiers plans to enlarge the CS series to compete with the 737 will not happen as Airbus already has the Neo. The threat of a new entrant is gone, jobs move out of Canada to the airbus plant in the
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by rpiguy 9y ago
Antifa believe they are morally superior to everyone else and use it to justify violence and oppression, so it is a fairly appropriate comparison. I can easily see the movement turn to killing if left unchecked.
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by rpiguy 9y ago
Fair point. If the New Republic still publishes articles this long perhaps they feel shorter because the language is less dense? Maybe it is just my perception then based on how the writing style has changed.

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